Itunes & Windows Media Player

Does anyone know if I can play the music I have on my itunes in Windows Media Player? Or how to change the file format successfully so it will play in WMP. I've just bought a new phone & want to put some of my music onto my phone, but don't know how to.

This microsoft link should help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316992
WMP does not convert audio files, though the Windows Media Encoder found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx
will work-at least with WAV files. Of course iTunes has been able to convert files to wav for quite awhile.
From this document:
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/codecs/comparison.aspx
you can see that Microsoft would prefer WMP users use WMA Pro as an alternative to AAC files.
Message was edited by: Douglas Cooley

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